A shortish walk to LFGP, still held some often tricky to see species for the time of year, Nuthatch was singing near Teal hide, A Little Egret on the North spit, just 1 Snipe, a few Fieldfare far off, plus 3 Skylark chasing each other and displaying, a lone male Goldeneye, all the usual common gulls, Siskin over and at Sandford the same Chiffchaff feeding avidly along the backwater.
With the park on 83 species for the year so far, new additions we can expect during February are Redshank, Shelduck maybe a Mandarin, at this time last year, the park was on 86 species including all the following we haven't had so far this year ; Peregrine, Jack Snipe, Yellow Legged Gull, Marsh Harrier and Merlin, plus Bearded Tit, but we didn't know about this record for months to come. Raven was recorded on 1st Feb 2012. Certainly Raven, Peregrine, Yellow Legged Gull and probably Woodcock should be added this month.
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